The Returning Officer for the election, Professor Daniel Ayuba, disclosed this after the collation of results from the three local government councils that made up the constituency in Jalingo.

Ayuba said that while the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Tafida Sadiq, scored a total of seventeen thousand two hundred and fourteen votes, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP, Innocent Jabayang, who came in as the first runner-up, scored fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty seven, putting the difference between the duo at one thousand six hundred and seventy seven.

Ayuba explained that the principle of the current act stipulates that if the margin of victory is less than the total number of collected PVCs in the areas where election is cancelled, the result cannot be declared.